Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 745 593 632
Rank change year-on-year -152 +39 -27
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 48 79 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.043% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the General category 0.094% 0.23% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 31 31 86
10th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £56,000
25th Percentile £77,625 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +13.01% -3.38%
75th Percentile £108,750 £90,967 £118,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £95,000 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% -0.73%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 50,922 33,643 44,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 45.83% 68.21% 56.59%
Number of salaries quoted 31,354 17,605 24,492
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £76,013
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.69%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 5 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -145 48 £85,000 +3.03% 38
London -82 34 £92,500 +12.12% 24
UK excluding London -109 12 £85,000 +9.68% 20
North West -1 9 £85,000 +30.77% 5
Work from Home -41 9 £107,500 +43.33% 11
North of England -59 9 £85,000 +14.42% 10
Midlands -37 3 £102,500 +32.26% 2
East Midlands -32 2 - -
West Midlands - 1 £102,500 - 2

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (2.08%) Misys Opics
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.08%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) AWS
2 14 (29.17%) Azure
3 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
4 6 (12.50%) GCP
5 4 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.25%) SaaS
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.17%) Collibra
7 2 (4.17%) Datadog
7 2 (4.17%) Figma
7 2 (4.17%) Google Analytics
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.17%) Serverless
7 2 (4.17%) Vertex AI
8 1 (2.08%) Google Gemini
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.17%) Metadata
2 2 (4.17%) Mixpanel
2 2 (4.17%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.08%) Data Mart
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (16.67%) Git
2 4 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
General
1 44 (91.67%) Banking
2 31 (64.58%) Finance
3 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (10.42%) Retail
5 4 (8.33%) Law
6 3 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.25%) Marketing
7 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Advertising
8 1 (2.08%) Electronics
8 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Senior
2 10 (20.83%) Developer
3 9 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) AWS Developer
4 8 (16.67%) Azure Developer
4 8 (16.67%) Cloud Developer
4 8 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Lead
5 6 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Data Scientist
6 5 (10.42%) Lead Data Scientist
6 5 (10.42%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Product Manager
8 3 (6.25%) Auditor
8 3 (6.25%) IT Auditor
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Auditor
8 3 (6.25%) Senior IT Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) Terraform
2 6 (12.50%) NumPy
2 6 (12.50%) Pandas
3 5 (10.42%) scikit-learn
3 5 (10.42%) XGBoost
4 3 (6.25%) Kafka
5 2 (4.17%) CrewAI
5 2 (4.17%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.17%) LangChain
5 2 (4.17%) LangGraph
5 2 (4.17%) Model Context Protocol
5 2 (4.17%) RESTful
5 2 (4.17%) Spring
5 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.08%) jQuery
6 1 (2.08%) OAuth
6 1 (2.08%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.08%) PySpark
6 1 (2.08%) React
6 1 (2.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.42%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.17%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Mobile Wallet
4 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.08%) Online Banking
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) DevOps
2 16 (33.33%) Analytics
3 13 (27.08%) Digital Banking
4 12 (25.00%) AI
4 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (20.83%) Agile
5 10 (20.83%) Product Management
5 10 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 9 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (14.58%) Microservices
7 7 (14.58%) Validation
8 6 (12.50%) Data Science
8 6 (12.50%) Product Strategy
8 6 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 5 (10.42%) Exploratory Data Analysis
9 5 (10.42%) Feature Engineering
9 5 (10.42%) Fintech
9 5 (10.42%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) Python
2 9 (18.75%) SQL
3 6 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (2.08%) APMG
3 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) GDPR
2 6 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (10.42%) EU AI Act
4 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.17%) PMO
4 2 (4.17%) PSD2
4 2 (4.17%) QA
5 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.08%) GRC
5 1 (2.08%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) Grafana
2 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (8.33%) Databricks
1 4 (8.33%) Google
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 2 (4.17%) Amplitude
3 2 (4.17%) Informatica
4 1 (2.08%) EMC
4 1 (2.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) Revolut
4 1 (2.08%) Workday